How do I browse diff of a file in TortoiseSVN

Question

I am currently using tortoiseSVN as my source control in windows. How do I view the diff of a single file as I move through the different revisions quickly? Or is there a better tool?

Answer 1

I think you might want to have a look at the Blame tool. It will annotate each line of source with the revision number in which it was last modified.

Answer 2

To see the revisions of the file you can right click the file and choose

TortoiseSVN -> Show Log

Then, from there you can select multiple items and choose Compare Revisions

Answer 3

Right-click on the file > TurtoiseSVN > Diff or Diff with previous version. You can also use Show Log, then right-click the file and use any of the "Compare" options. I personally use WinMerge for merging and showing differences.

Answer 4

I think what you might really like is an open source tool called svn-time-lapse-view.

It's a Java executable jar file that lets you load all the revisions for a file and then use a slider to scroll/cycle through all of the version changes with the diff shown below the slider.

Much faster than opening the log and selecting two files over and over again.